Pediatric Enteral Feeding: Gastrostomy Feeding Button
Maintenance and Reinsertion

Presented by Clinical Procedure Manual Review Board and Lori Cover

Video Runtime: 5 Minutes; Total Course Timing: 25 Minutes

This course will cover the proper procedure, patient education, documentation guidelines, and care considerations for pediatric enteral feeding: gastrostomy feeding button maintenance and reinsertion.

Learning Outcomes

Identify the correct procedure for pediatric gastrostomy button maintenance
Describe the essential elements of patient education when maintaining a pediatric gastrostomy button
Define best-practice documentation for pediatric gastrostomy button maintenance
Demonstrate clinical decision-making related to pediatric gastrostomy button maintenance

Meet your instructors

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Clinical Procedure Manual Review Board

The Medbridge Clinical Procedure Manual Review Board ensures the development and maintenance of up-to-date and evidence-based clinical procedures. The review board is composed of leading nurse experts in the field: Danielle Pierotti, RN, PhD, CENP, and Margherita Labson, RN, BSN, MSHSA. The review board is involved in…

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Lori Cover

Lori Cover is a masters-prepared registered nurse with nearly two decades of experience caring for medically fragile and special-needs pediatric populations. She is passionate about improving quality of life through evidence-based practice and patient education. Lori holds a master of science in nursing with a focus in…

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Chapters & learning objectives

1. Introduction

This chapter includes an introduction to gastrostomy feeding button maintenance and reinsertion, information on all of the equipment and previsit preparation needed for this assessment, and recommended infection control policies.

2. Procedure: Pediatric Enteral Feeding, Gastrostomy Feeding Button, Maintenance and Reinsertion

This chapter will provide a step-by-step procedure guide and video demonstration of gastrostomy feeding button maintenance and reinsertion.

3. Tips, Precautions, and Care Considerations

This chapter provides tips, precautions, and considerations for performing these skills in the home.

4. Patient and Caregiver Education

This chapter provides information on what education the patient (and caregiver) needs to support self-management of their care.

5. Documentation Guidelines

This chapter provides recommendations on what to note when documenting for patients receiving gastrostomy feeding button maintenance and reinsertion.

6. Conclusion

This chapter includes learning assessment questions to assess the learner’s knowledge of skills covered in this course. A bibliography of referenced material is also included.